ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS.
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to buy the said corn, and each alderman laid out twenty pounds to the like purpose." He was buried in the Church of St. George,
Botolph Lane, where his son, Richard Bamme, of Gillingham, Kent, also
lies,
ob. 1452.
Thomas
1395.
Pole, goldsmith,
was buried
in the
Church of
Matthew, Friday Street, in 1395. Adam Browne, goldsmith, was Lord Mayor in 1397. 1397. ] ohn May hew. "Paid for a stone of adamant, "orna1399. mented and set in gold, xl /i." First Henry IV. (Devon's Pell St.
The stone of adamant was a loadstone frequently the person as an amulet against maladies set in metal. alter Prest and 'Nicholas Broker executed in gilt metal 1400. the effigies of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, in the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, in the beginning of the fifteenth cenIn the Kalendar of the Exchequer, eighteenth Richard II, is tury. a copy of the indenture for the construction of the tomb of Richard II and his Queen, in Westminster Abbey, between the King and Master Yevele and Stephen Lote, stonemasons (latomos), for a marble tomb for Anna, recently Queen of England, and the said Lord King; also an indenture between the King and Nicholas Broker ?nd Walter Prest, "coppersmiths" of London, to make two statues (ymagines) in the likeness of the King and Queen, of brass and laton gilt upon the said marble tomb with other clauses contained in the indenture ; also a design or model (patron) of the likenesses of the King and Queen, from which model the said work was to be completed. This tomb was placed in the Abbey before the King's death, his body being subsequently removed from Pontefract Castle and placed under his effigy by Henry V, the son of his murderer.
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Sir Drugo, or Dru, Barentyne, goldsmith, was twice 1400. Mayor, 1398, 1408, Sheriff in 1393, M.P. for the City of London, He lived in Foster Lane. He built the second Goldsmiths' 1394. Hall in 1407. In 1395 a singular grant was issued to Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, and Drugo Barentyne, goldsmith of London, licensing them to melt down groats, half -groats, and sterlings, or pennies, to the amount of ;^ioo, and to make thereof a silver vessel It is for the use of the said Margaret, notwithstanding the Statute. not easy to ascertain the object of this grant, for it is scarcely possible that there was not a sufficiency of bullion in another form to " be readily obtained. He gave fair lands to the goldsmiths," ac" cording to Stow, and dwelled right against the Goldsmiths' Hall, betweene the which Hall and his dwelling-house he builded a gallory thwarting the streete, whereby he might go from one to the He was buried in the Church of St. John Zachary, on other."
December
15, 141 5.
John Frances, goldsmith, was Mayor in this year, He was buried in the Church of St. John 1390 Zachary. "Johannes Frances, civis et aurifaber et quondam Maior London, qui obiit, 13 December 1405." 1
400- 1.
1400-1.
Sir
Sheriff,